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Post by redbaron998 on Jun 28, 2008 20:26:44 GMT -6
So I was watching the "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" collection from netflix.
In Crounch End, there is a young couple who find themselves in a neigborhood in England that the cap driver says, "Is a thin spot between this diminsion and the other" Anyways a bit into it at one point the women is running away from something that appears like the creeping darkness.
She passes by several signs that say, "Alhazred, Cthulu Kryon, R'Yeleh, Yogsoggoth, and Nrtesn Nyarlahotep"
So I thought yall might like hearing about this if you havent already...needless to say when I saw this nood to Lovecraft in the movie my eyes lit up (Stephan king is a known fan of Lovecraft)
A question also, I have never heard these two things. In the signs two of them say
"Cthulu Kryon" and "Nrtesn Nyarlahotep"
Where did Kryon and Nrtesn come from? I have never heard of that before...is it supposed to be a first name? Another seperate word?
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Post by Yevathik on Jun 28, 2008 21:51:31 GMT -6
I've read the story version of Crouch End. Those signs appear in the story as well. Sadly, this was probably the only one of King's novels that was remotely frightening to me. I have a lot of trouble finding horror novels scary. It's probably my own fault for reading so much Lovecraft - I've become desensitized to it.
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Post by JJ Burke on Jun 29, 2008 0:45:25 GMT -6
'crouch end' was my first exposure to lovecraft names.. i just thought it was stephen king being creepy, but the more i read the more i realized he was completely lifting hpl's style for that story. king rarely goes for the cosmic dread effect in his own creations, from what i've seen.
i wouldn't be too anxious about nailing down the meaning of kryon or nrtesn.. people are quick to lump anything new (to them) in with the 'definitive' mythos, then the mythos becomes anything but definitive.
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Post by darkdescent13 on Jun 1, 2010 16:14:28 GMT -6
I have a lot of trouble finding horror novels scary. It's probably my own fault for reading so much Lovecraft - I've become desensitized to it. I think that most horror novels are not very scary. Horror movies are also not that scary. Of, course, there are exceptions, but I find a lot of horror in any media falls into the trap of having to explain itself, which really takes the fear factor out for me.
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Post by Sarak G'hash on Jun 1, 2010 19:35:54 GMT -6
I have a lot of trouble finding horror novels scary. It's probably my own fault for reading so much Lovecraft - I've become desensitized to it. I think that most horror novels are not very scary. Horror movies are also not that scary. Of, course, there are exceptions, but I find a lot of horror in any media falls into the trap of having to explain itself, which really takes the fear factor out for me. Not enough is left to the imagination nowadays. Awake!
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Post by 10kdays on Jun 1, 2010 21:04:20 GMT -6
Crouch End is a pretty good Mythos tale, but as JJ Burke stated above, it's nothing new. Try for Brian Lumley...
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Post by darkdescent13 on Jun 2, 2010 4:07:56 GMT -6
I think that most horror novels are not very scary. Horror movies are also not that scary. Of, course, there are exceptions, but I find a lot of horror in any media falls into the trap of having to explain itself, which really takes the fear factor out for me. Not enough is left to the imagination nowadays. Awake! The reason for this, I believe, is more of a marketing thing. People, or the herd, want things explained to them. Which is fine, but I think this is really making the horror genre suffer considerably. There is a lot of crap out there today, where all plot points are wrapped neatly together in a nice little package, and everything is explained with no mysteries left at the end. And so this is what publishers choose to present to their readers. Which is fine, as I said, but it fails in actually scaring you, like H.P. Lovecraft's fiction can, and does, for example.
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